Serie C, the newly promoted: Forlì, the football and the joy of Miramari and the School Cup

There is a team that in the last championship has done better than Naples, Inter, Atalanta and Juventus. From January to April he collected 13 wins in a row, closing his group among the amateurs with 84 points in 34 games: 2.47 on average for each game. Nobody from Serie A to D has traveled at such high rhythms. Merit of a coach who loves offensive football and a bomber who has challenged Cr7. All this is the Forlì: the red and white have returned among the professionals after eight years placing themselves in front of more famous clubs such as Ravenna and Pistoia. On the bench there is Alessandro Miramari: commercial representation in a metalworking company, which has always been in love with the ball. After work in the office, he dedicates himself to preparing training and games. He made a career as a technician in Futsal, then he preferred the field to Eleven. His game philosophy is summarized in two fundamental concepts: having fun and take more goals than the opponents. To lead the team’s attack is Elia Petrelli, center forward born in 2003, Juventus school. For everyone in black and white it was “the new Mandzukic”: Allegri often called him among the greats, in that group there were Dybala and Ronaldo. Between U17 and Spring, he marked in burst, after a complicated experience at Reggina in B he went down in the category without ever being able to impose himself. With the Forlì shirt he found confidence and goals.

Mental Coach and ball

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Mister Miramari dragged the group to Serie C: “Football is a game, it must give us joy”. A phrase that the coach repeats continuously to his boys. On the red and white bench arrived last summer after the corticella experience. With Forlì he immediately tried to integrate the techniques of Futsal: fast triangolations, first steps, oriented stops, shots from distance. The team always trains with the ball, even during physical preparation. No run, steps and exhausting strength sessions: each exercise is aimed at trying a game situation. The 4-3-3 is the reference form, Miramari studies how to hurt opponents even during the hours in the office. For the new adventure in Serie C he chose to insert the figure of the Mental Coach into the staff: a professional to whom players can rely in everyday life to train the mind as well as the physicist. From this season, the work begins soon: at 9 meeting and breakfast at the sports center, then we move on to the video sessions, then you go to the field. In the afternoon everyone in the gym. It was also possible to keep the team’s power supply under control with the menus created ad hoc.

The ex Milan captain

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The president of Forlì is Gianfranco Cappelli: he manages a building lactoneria company, among the most important in Italy. Since 2017 it is the number one of the club. On the field, the captain’s armband is by Lorenzo Saporetti: central defender born in ’96 who grew up in Milan’s youth team. He played a few games with Pippo Inzaghi’s Rossoneri spring in 2013/2014. In recent years he has collected over 150 appearances among professionals, in the past season he chose to return to his city to win. He succeeded. The group will led that Riccardo Gaiola, captain last year, returns available after breaking the cruciate ligament. The club has always put the children in the foreground. For two years he has guaranteed an hour of physical education to the elementary schools in the area together with the instructors of the company. Also organizing events, games and meetings with players. Morgagni’s stands are always full of small red and white fans. With the School Cup, an initiative dedicated to the Higher Institutes, the local formations challenge each other in an itinerant tournament with final at the stadium. On April 17, the team celebrated with its people the promotion in C. In a city that has always been famous for basketball, football has returned to the foreground. Thanks to the Forlì of the records.